For the remainder of the term, blog posts will be due on Friday of each week. Please feel free to develop conversation points raised in class or to introduce and explore new topics or reactions of your own. As always, I'm looking to see that you've offered detailed, thoughtful reflections on some aspect of the text/discussion/historical period that we're focusing on. To aid you in your reading (or blog posting), I've offered a few guiding questions below.QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
- Do you think Voltaire would agree or disagree with Pope's determination that "Whatever is, is right"?
- How would you characterize the tone of the narrator in this tale?
- Based on your reading so far, what is Voltaire's Enlightenment agenda, and how does it compare to Pope?
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I was looking at these three questions, and I don't think we ever discussed the first one in class so i wanted to answer it. I do not think that Voltaire would agree that Whatever Is, Is Right for these reasons: 1-he wouldn't be so over the top, sarcastic and mocking. 2- Voltaire's writing says a lot about responsibility (don't wait for things to happen, take charge, get out there, etc.) 3. he doesn't exactly write pleasantly about organized religion...
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